After the All Progressive Congress (APC) pegged their nomination and expression of interest form at N100m, a Kebbi-based businessman quickly signed a Cheque of N100m for Ahmed Bola Tinubu to purchase the form.
People should not be deceived by this so-called philanthropic donation of the man in favor of Tinubu; this act of the man is never a philanthropic one nor is it a charitable donation; these are investments.
Anybody contributing anything for the election of any aspirant is doing so for what the giver looks forward to getting out once his or her candidate wins the election. Every contributor is looking forward to one compensation or the other which can either be monetary or in-kind from his candidate.
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This is the kind of society that Nigeria has evolved into. Nobody is doing anything as an act of kindness or as an act of giving back to society and expecting nothing in return, rather with the intention of what he or she will get in return as a return on investment.
Even those contesting to fill in different political positions are not doing so because they have the interest of the nation at hand or because they want to effect some positive changes as most of them do claim, rather 99.9% of them are going there as a way of enriching their pockets and enriching their unborn generations’ pocket and laying their kleptomaniac hands on the national cake and grabbing home the one they can all take home.
For us to kill corruption or reduce it to the barest minimum we must not merchandise the political game. Politics is now made to be a game for only the rich. It is on those who can afford to purchase forms and throw money around for campaigns are wanted, those who cannot afford it are sent back home; the go hard or you go home kind of game.
Someone who paid N100m for form and spent billions for campaigns will definitely be tempted to loot the public funds to recover the money he spent contesting the election and acts like these reinforce and encourage corruption in the society.
We can do better.